But there is just sufficient truth in them to forbid me, as I am, I hope, a gentleman, from giving them a full denial. Yet in what am I worse than my fellows? Are you of those who think a husband should come to them as one whose youth has been the youth of cloistered nun? Heaven knows, I am not one to draw parallels `twixt myself and any other, yet you compel me. Whilst you deny me, you receive this fellow Blake - a London night-scourer, a broken gamester who has given his creditors leg-bail, and who woos you that with your fortune he may close the doors of the debtor's gaol that's open to receive him."
"This is unworthy in you," she exclaimed, her tone indignant - so indignant that he experienced his first pang of jealousy.
"It would be were I his rival," he answered quietly. "But I am not. I have saved you from becoming the prey of such as he by forcing you to marry me."
"That I may become the prey of such as you, instead," was her retort.
He looked at her a moment, smiling sadly.
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